The President says he needs to do a better job of telling people that he’s right.

Don’t expect President Obama to chart a moderate course after Tuesday’s historic Republican election victories. In a CBS interview broadcast Sunday, Mr. Obama acknowledged his role in Democratic defeats but said that his principal shortcoming was a failure to sell good policies. And in an email this morning to supporters, he seems determined to ignore the message sent by voters last week.

On Sunday Mr. Obama said that “there is a tendency sometimes for me to start thinking: As long as I get the policy right then that’s...